Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and other pols pushed the state Senate Tuesday to come back into session and pass legislation to let the city keep using speed cameras at schools and strengthen abortion rights protections.

“Republicans in the Senate will just not do their job,” Hochul said at a lower Manhattan rally. “We will continue to insist that the Senate do what they’re supposed to do to protect the people that elected them to office. Because if you don’t do that, we will make sure that you are no longer in office.”

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Cameras that bust speeding motorists near many city schools will have to be switched off next week, because the state legislative session ended without the Senate approving legislation to authorize them to keep operating.

Meanwhile, Democrats have seized on President Trump’s appointment of a conservative justice to the Supreme Court to push for the passage of the Reproductive Health Act. The bill would let medical providers other than doctors perform abortions and allow for the abortion of fetuses after 24 weeks if the health of the mother is deemed at risk or the child is not considered viable.

The Democratic-controlled state Assembly has already passed both bills, which are both sponsored by Assemblywoman Deborah Glick.

“This is unacceptable. The lives of women and children are not pawns in a political game,” Glick said, calling Senate majority leader John Flanagan “a weak leader by refusing to vote on bills that have bipartisan support.”

Gov. Cuomo has the power to force a special session of both houses of the legislature. But Glick said she would not support that because it would force the two bodies back into negotiations that previously hit a stalemate, rather than the Senate taking up what the Assembly has already passed.

“It’s clear that Gov. Cuomo and his Albany allies want a special session to distract the public from the rampant corruption sweeping through his administration,” said Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

“The Governor was disengaged and absent from the state Capitol for the last three months of our legislative session, while we were hard at work doing the people’s business. We’re not playing his political games.”